The new Tureberg Church is situated in Sollentuna just outside Stockholm. Architect Helena Tallius Myhrman from Tallius Myhrman Architects wanted to do the Tureberg Church bold yet timeless. It’s a modern concrete church with sustainability in mind.
Most of the equipment in the round church is made of recycled materials. To the altar, baptismal font and the organ kabinett the artist Finn Ahlgren of Godspeed used recycled wood. The altar and processional crosses are made from recycled glass from scrapped televisions and monitors. The chasubles with its symbolic applications is made of durable linen made by the sewing circle of the local community.
The church wanted to order something that reminded of man’s faulty and incomplete, and that it is ok and something that can be highlighted and presented to and nothing to be ashamed of.
It brought the ideas to me on the broken and the ugly in design. How it is always sidestepped, and the enormous opportunities available to explore in an era when we want everything new, says artist Finn Ahlgren.
The chairs by Alexander Lervik for Johanson design have seats made of recycled PET bottles.
Photography by Mikael Kiesbye.
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5 comments
Paolo Bartoli says:
May 19, 2011
“It’s a modern concrete church with sustainability in mind.”
I wonder how can we claim that a concrete building is sustainable.
We all know that concrete is one of the most energy-intensive material available for architecure, don’t we?
Dennis says:
May 23, 2011
I really like it, but it seems to be a small space for such a modern church.
Priest says:
Jul 11, 2011
Knowledge wants to be free, just like these atcriles!
heezmprvchl says:
Jul 14, 2011
BUA6ex ybtaupfimukj
Island Boy says:
Nov 7, 2011
That’s nice…
How you seen this one,
http://isla-dulce.blogspot.com/2011/11/chapel-of-cartwheels.html
The chapel of cartwheels.